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Colin Allred: “I've been very clear that I think we should reform the…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

Colin Allred talks border, abortion, economy and how he plans to unseat Senator Cruz.

Published October 11, 2024 | Video Starts at 19:48

I don't think it's been a massive victory for Texas women in families. And we have to restore this right at the federal level by codifying Roe v. Wade. I've been very clear that I think we should reform the filibuster. To do that, I want to go back to the historical use of the filibuster as a speaking filibuster. (19:48–19:51)

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“Ted Cruz...wanting to cut Medicare and Social Security.”
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“Ted Cruz...refusing to help us secure the border.”
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“Ted Cruz has done to our state in terms of being uniquely responsible for the abortion ban that we have here in Texas.”
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“The infrastructure bill...is a bipartisan bill that I hope to put together and sprang $35 billion to our state.”
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“The Chips and Science Act...We are benefiting from that tremendously here in Texas.”
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“Physical barriers have a role to play in border security in addition to technology, personnel, and policy changes.”
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“The border bill that we had earlier this year...was $20 billion for technology to catch fentanyl, for 1,000 new Border Patrol agents, for…”
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“That bill was not a serious attempt at border security.”
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“HR2 was a symbolic bill intended to just have. For people like Ted Cruz to say they support that and then never do anything.”
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“Senator Lankford, to try and put together a serious attempt to secure the border. $20 billion.”
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“Ted Cruz, when he had the opportunity, said, we don't need a border bill, and he took it down.”
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“Now we're at the lowest rate of border crossings in several years because of the change in policy at the federal level.”
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“We cap the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors.”
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“We kept the out of pocket costs starting next year for seniors at $2,000 a year for their prescription drugs.”
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“The child tax credit expansion was incredibly successful for Texas. It had a huge impact.”
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“It helped us reduce poverty dramatically for children in Texas.”
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“The Israeli Defense Minister Gallant has said that [Hamas] are no longer basically an organized military unit anymore.”
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“Hezbollah launched, I think, 11,000 rockets over the course of this last year into northern Israel.”
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“We helped take down that massive missile attack that the Iranians launched on Israel.”
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“Their breakout time is unknown at this point.”
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“Hamas's ability to conduct an October 7th style terrorist attack has been decimated.”
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“We don't have any exceptions for rape or incest in our state law here [in Texas].”
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“26,000 Texas women have been forced to give birth to their rapist child since Dobbs came down.”
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“Ted Cruz's abortion ban...he put the judges on the district court, circuit court and Supreme Court level to do this.”
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“For most of our history, most of the major legislation that we're all familiar with passed on a majority vote in the Senate.”
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“Reforming the filibuster to go back to a traditional role as a speaking filibuster.”
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“We have to codify Roe v. Wade, go back to the standard that we've had for the last 50 years.”
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“Texas hospitals, Texas physicians... are left in incredible limbo and danger.”
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“Lawyers, not doctors, determining whether a woman is sick enough to get the treatment they need.”
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“If they're wrong, maybe go to jail for 99 years, which is the potential in Texas.”
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“Women are being turned away and then they are bleeding out in their cars and parking lots.”
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“I've always opposed the idea of expansion of the Court.”
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“The legitimacy of the Court is the main power that it retains.”
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“There are good arguments around ethics requirements for the Court.”
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“D.C. has a strong argument for statehood.”
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